# @dmregister on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DHtyeLNxJZb
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/28482158-dmregister-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2025-03-27T20:01:21.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Des Moines Register (@DMRegister) — https://gondola.cc/DMRegister

## Caption

We're used to vending machines plunking out a soda, a bag of chips or a favorite candy bar. But what about dispensing a new book?

That's the novel approach about a half-dozen desmoinespublicschools are taking to get kids to read — using vending machines to distribute books.

Goodrell Middle School led the initiative, putting in a book vending machine in 2021. Since then, Harding Middle School and several area elementary schools whose students attend Goodrell for junior high have added the machines.

Students — who get to keep the books they select — use tokens they receive from staff to "pay" for them.

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